Age Quotes

Claude m. bristol - undoubtedly, we become what we envisage....
Russell green - the advantage of a classical education is that it...
To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The goal of revival is conformity to the image of Christ, not imitation of animals.
Richard F. Lovelace
Nature has perfection, in order to show that she is the image of God and defects, to show that she is only his image.
Blaise Pascal
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.
Henri de Montherlant
Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many.
Publilius Syrus
A man of a right spirit is not a man of narrow and private views, but is greatly interested and concerned for the good of the community to which he belongs, and particularly of the city or village in which he resides, and for the true welfare of the society of which he is a member.
Johathan Edwards
How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown.
William Shakespeare
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Stanislaus
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates, In "Apology, " sct. 21, by Plato.
Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
J. B. Priestley
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
Peter Drucke
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
B. A. Billingsly
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity.
James Russell Lowell
Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
Solon
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Groucho Marx
Henry ford - there is one rule for the industrialist and that...
We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood.
C. C. Colton
Great minds discuss ideas Average minds discuss events Small minds discuss people.
Unknown
There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.
Sophocles
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
For the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - That is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, O Magazine, October 2003
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the greatest minds yield in some degree to the superstitions of their age.
Henry David Thoreau
Everyone is the age of their heart.
Guatemalan Prove
Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.
General Robert E. Lee
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
Language is a living, kicking, growing, flitting, evolving reality, and the teacher should spontaneously reflect its vibrant and protean qualities.
John A. Rassias
He who does not have the courage to speak up for his rights cannot earn the respect of others.
Ren G. Torres
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think - - Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
I believe in the institution of marriage and I intend to keep trying until I get it right.
Richard Pryo
An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - - And a lot of courage - - To move in the opposite direction.
Hoshang N. Akhta
The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
Ronald Firbank
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuh
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
Joseph Roux
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft